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Saturday, February 1, 2014

Charlton Stanley — Edward Snowden speaks: US blackout of interview

Last Sunday, former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden was interviewed for the German television network ARD. The interview was big news in Germany and much of the world in both print and broadcast media. However, the interview appears to have been blocked intentionally by US government authorities. In fact, the media in the US appears to have gone to ‘radio silence’ about it. It has been posted on YouTube several times, but is taken down almost immediately. The video site Vimeo has it embedded, but as I write this, Vimeo is under a DDoS attack. LiveLeak also has it, and that video is embedded in this report by Jay Syrmopoulos for Ben Swann’s news page.

Edward Snowden appears to me to be a courageous figure not unlike the solitary man in the Tiananmen Square protests in the Spring of 1989 who stood in front of a column of tanks to stop them from moving forward.